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Hello Guys,
I'm stuck with my Samsung Galaxy S4. It's a GT-I9505 by Vodafone Germany. I came from stock Samsung Firmware 4.22 and wanted to root by using Odin3 an CF-Auto-Root. When flashing the cf-auto-root....tar.md5 Odin showed FAIL instead of PASS.
I think my big mistake was, not to switch the phone to USB-debugging ON. I forgot this. So now, when booting, the device asks me to do the emergency recovery with Samsung KIES. But unfortunately this doesn't work. Kies says Phone not connected. What can i do?
As far as i can figure out, i crashed the kernel with this flashing-attempt. i read something about using a PIT-File and a stock-rom to fix this.
Luckily i can boot to download-mode and also Odin seems to realize, that i plugged in the phone.
I would be VERY happy and thankful, if someone could give me a hint or even better a step-by-step instruction, how to get my Galaxy S4 back to work. Even with the stock Firmware. At least, it's working again....but how can i manage it?
Thanks guys!
Alex.
Look in the i9505 forum for a stock firmware tar and flash it via Odin and you will be back 100% stock as if you just bought it. Instructions for flashing the stock firmware tar will be in the post. I would search and link you but on my phone.
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Adam0524 said:
Look in the i9505 forum for a stock firmware tar and flash it via Odin and you will be back 100% stock as if you just bought it. Instructions for flashing the stock firmware tar will be in the post. I would search and link you but on my phone.
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MAy be you have a link for me? I'm new to this forum and site....
Thanks a lot!
Sy36 said:
MAy be you have a link for me? I'm new to this forum and site....
Thanks a lot!
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Here ya go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252982
Its possible you had a corrupted cf-autoroot image. If you have an MD5 on the stock rom you download, use ODIN 3.04 or 3.07 to flash as they check the MD5 sums before flashing as long as the rom has an MD5 extension - .tar.md5.
ultramag69 said:
Its possible you had a corrupted cf-autoroot image. If you have an MD5 on the stock rom you download, use ODIN 3.04 or 3.07 to flash as they check the MD5 sums before flashing as long as the rom has an MD5 extension - .tar.md5.
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FIRST OF ALL:
Thank you very much for helping me!
I got my SGS4 back working! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
But it wasn't done with only flashing a stock ROM. I also had to use a PIT file for repartioning the phone.
Another trick (or was it just coincident?) was, i had to use to ORIGINAL usb-cable for flashing. First i used a third-party usb-cable. May this was also an issue.
So in the end, i followed this howto:
wccftech.com/how-to-unbrick-samsung-galaxy-s4
i downloaded the PIT-file and the stock firmware, recommended by Adam0524, from further above.
I hope my mistakes while flashing my SGS4 and the solution i found may help others, who run into the same problem. So if you have trouble flashing your S4's and get a FAIL message in Odin, but if you can still enter the download-mode, there will be a great chance to get it back working.
What you'll need is:
Odin 3.07
Stock firmware for GT-I9505 (about 1,7 GB)
PIT-File for your GT-I9505 (about 3 KB)
ORIGINAL Samsung usb-cable (!)
and relax, everything will be good in the end
P.S.: I'm so glad that my S4 is working again...!!!!! :laugh:
Your problem was in usb cable.
Btw, usb debug has to do nothing with flashing with odin. It is used only when you are booted in OS
Sent from my Galaxy
Also, just as a caution to all noob flashers, god that sounds rude, remember that flashing a pit file is generally the LAST thing you do before sending it back to Samsung... There is a very large amount of risk in flashing pit files. If you have the wrong one, this happens a lot with people new to playing with their phones, the file is corrupt or you just do something bad then you can end up with a true brick...
I have an S3 that someone played around with. I can boot to download mode, no recovery and can't repartition... Needs j-tag when I get the time....
i9505 bricked
I've been running 4.2.2 stock rooted with CF autoroot and using Philz recovery when tried to flash 4.3 through Mobile Odin, and I ended up having my phone bricked. It only goes in download mode and when trying to recover from kies it gets stuck in the same screen where it shoes *** SV REV. CHECK FAIL : Fused : 3 , Binary : 1 *** I desperately need some help with this guys.
Thanks in advance.
rubnduardo said:
I've been running 4.2.2 stock rooted with CF autoroot and using Philz recovery when tried to flash 4.3 through Mobile Odin, and I ended up having my phone bricked. It only goes in download mode and when trying to recover from kies it gets stuck in the same screen where it shoes *** SV REV. CHECK FAIL : Fused : 3 , Binary : 1 *** I desperately need some help with this guys.
Thanks in advance.
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Hows it? I think you would have figured by now. Just flash a stock ROM via download mode / Odin
Btw, OP I was shocked that you wrote CF-Autoroot bricked your device, it is by far the safest root method available. As you have aknolwedged later it is not a problem caused by it.
dogmatism said:
Hows it? I think you would have figured by now. Just flash a stock ROM via download mode / Odin
Btw, OP I was shocked that you wrote CF-Autoroot bricked your device, it is by far the safest root method available. As you have aknolwedged later it is not a problem caused by it.
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It was a problem with the bootloader as we all know android 4.3 has new ones -.-! I felt like the biggest noob ever. Do you happen to know about a GPe based rom for i9505?
NOTE: AT&T variant. Phone is running 4.2.2 with MF3 baseband
So I'm helping a friend root his phone and run a custom ROM. The root went successfully (motochopper) and we installed SafeStrap and then we did a backup and wipe and then installed a 4.3 Google Play edition ROM (first mistake as we meant to download the 4.2 version)
I have the stock firmware zip for the phone and figured that that was the way to fix it, but I can't figure out how to get it to install. Through ADB it gives me an error after starting DAEMON. I converted the zip to a .tar and tried to use ODIN but ODIN stops working as soon as I tell it to run. I made sure I had the most current, correct drivers and am running ODIN3 v1.85. I thought maybe if I put it on the SD card I could install it though that method via the stock recovery but it says there is an invalid arguement.
What am I doing wrong?
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h_smith said:
NOTE: AT&T variant. Phone is running 4.2.2 with MF3 baseband
So I'm helping a friend root his phone and run a custom ROM. The root went successfully (motochopper) and we installed SafeStrap and then we did a backup and wipe and then installed a 4.3 Google Play edition ROM (first mistake as we meant to download the 4.2 version)
I have the stock firmware zip for the phone and figured that that was the way to fix it, but I can't figure out how to get it to install. Through ADB it gives me an error after starting DAEMON. I converted the zip to a .tar and tried to use ODIN but ODIN stops working as soon as I tell it to run. I made sure I had the most current, correct drivers and am running ODIN3 v1.85. I thought maybe if I put it on the SD card I could install it though that method via the stock recovery but it says there is an invalid arguement.
What am I doing wrong?
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What stock firmware zip do you have? You have to have the mf3 .tar.md5 file if you're trying to use odin
How does he have mf3 and motochopper works? It shouldn't. Also you have to have a custom recovery to flash the gpe rom and we don't. The closest thing we have is safestrap.
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HiTideBlastoise said:
How does he have mf3 and motochopper works? It shouldn't. Also you have to have a custom recovery to flash the gpe rom and we don't. The closest thing we have is safestrap.
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I'm not sure. I just used the first method I found and it worked. Then when it came to the recovery part that's when I found out about his baseband
jd1639 said:
What stock firmware zip do you have? You have to have the mf3 .tar.md5 file if you're trying to use odin
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I'm on the SamMobile site trying to find the firmware and it says that they don't have it. I find that weird that such a popular model doesn't have the firmware needed to do this. I put in the correct model and country
EDIT: nevermind.
Hi,
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S4, with stock firmware (5.0.1, I think...) and TWRP recovery v3. I tried to flash a file, which got the phone stuck in a boot loop, and when I tried to factory reset it, I somehow accidentally tapped the 'wipe system partition' check box, too. When I tried to boot the phone again, it was stuck on the 'Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505' screen, with no advance to the boot animation.
I tried to flash the stock firmware on again, with an error: "Could not find 'META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file." Using my own knowledge, I've narrowed it down to two options: 1. Either the firmware zip is corrupt, but I have re-downloaded the zip a good five times, and 2. There's something else that also needs to be flashed to the system partition.
I really need some help. Is there anything to do before flashing the firmware zip, and if yes, what? And, is there a good, CONFIRMED WORKING link to a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 Stock firmware (LTE, Android 5.0.1, United Kingdom, Vodafone)?
Thanks,
hamzabil11
Firmwares aren't flashed through the recovery, but with Odin.
Firmwares also come with a tar extension. So it should be firmeare.tar
You could flash a custom rom now, or you can go to sammobile.com and download the official firmware from there and flash it with Odin.
Remeber, it has to be a tar file. Sammobile compresses them to zips, so you just extract them to get the tar file.
hamzabil11 said:
Hi,
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S4, with stock firmware (5.0.1, I think...) and TWRP recovery v3. I tried to flash a file, which got the phone stuck in a boot loop, and when I tried to factory reset it, I somehow accidentally tapped the 'wipe system partition' check box, too. When I tried to boot the phone again, it was stuck on the 'Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505' screen, with no advance to the boot animation.
I tried to flash the stock firmware on again, with an error: "Could not find 'META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file." Using my own knowledge, I've narrowed it down to two options: 1. Either the firmware zip is corrupt, but I have re-downloaded the zip a good five times, and 2. There's something else that also needs to be flashed to the system partition.
I really need some help. Is there anything to do before flashing the firmware zip, and if yes, what? And, is there a good, CONFIRMED WORKING link to a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 Stock firmware (LTE, Android 5.0.1, United Kingdom, Vodafone)?
Thanks,
hamzabil11
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It appears that you're phone is soft-brick. You need to flash the factory stock firmware.
You can also find all the factory stock firmware for lollipop i-9505 here.
It's not soft-bricked. He just needs to flash a rom. Any rom, either custom or official, should get the phone running again.
GDReaper said:
Firmwares aren't flashed through the recovery, but with Odin.
Firmwares also come with a tar extension. So it should be firmeare.tar
You could flash a custom rom now, or you can go to sammobile.com and download the official firmware from there and flash it with Odin.
Remeber, it has to be a tar file. Sammobile compresses them to zips, so you just extract them to get the tar file.
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Thanks a lot, I wasn't aware of this. I thought that you could just use the recovery to flash a stock OS, just like a custom OS. Never thought of using ODIN. I will check sammobile for the firmware; I'd heard of it before, just never thought of using it.
I was aware about the .tar extension though, just the websites i used gave them in .zip format.
Thanks,
hamzabil11
hamzabil11 said:
Thanks a lot, I wasn't aware of this. I thought that you could just use the recovery to flash a stock OS, just like a custom OS. Never thought of using ODIN. I will check sammobile for the firmware; I'd heard of it before, just never thought of using it.
I was aware about the .tar extension though, just the websites i used gave them in .zip format.
Thanks,
hamzabil11
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Sammobile has slow download speeds for non-premium users. So you might as well check the link suggested by sway8966.
GDReaper said:
Sammobile has slow download speeds for non-premium users. So you might as well check the link suggested by sway8966.
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Yeah Ok, thanks. I found out about the slow download speeds the hard way.
I've already checked the link, and it looks all good. I will try from there.
One more related question: If I flash this stock firmware, will I need to re-root the phone, and re-install TWRP recovery? Not really a problem if ido, but I would like to know in advance so I can be prepared.
Thanks,
hamzabil11
hamzabil11 said:
Yeah Ok, thanks. I found out about the slow download speeds the hard way.
I've already checked the link, but it only seems to offer Android KitKat Firmware. Since this phone is likely to be used offline all the time, I may not have the time to update it to Lollipop.
I will check out other sites, too, though.
Thanks,
hamzabil11
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SamFirm.
Good night guys, so there's my problem:
I was on DN 0.6.1 custom ROM, TWRP 3.0.2.0 and rooted. Today, i wanted to go back to stock ROM, so, I downloaded the stock firmware throught sammobile, and tried to install it throught ODIN 3.11, but it's stopped at system.img, and remained stuck in it for a long time. so i decided to restart the phone..
Then it's showed the follow message:
firmware upgrade encountered an issue note 4. Please select recovery mode on kies and try again.
So, i tried to re-flash throught ODIN, but stucked at system.img again, after it, I downloaded KIES and tried restore it, but it's stopped at 2%.
I wasn't abble to go to recovery mode, only download mode, so, i extracted the ROM file, and flashed only the boot.img through ODIN. Now it's boot to recovery...
I wiped data/cache, but the following error showed up:
E: Failed to mount system (invalid argument).
and now i can't find a solution for it.. tried to do amost anything that i could find on the internet, but none solved my problem...
I'm wanting to flash PIT + CSC + PDA file, using the repartition option on ODIN, but i'm afraid that may brick my phone for ever...
I'm following this tutorial by now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note...-t-w8-t3282641
And i need this CSC file, because my phone is the C version, could someone give me link to download it ? couldn't find in any place.
ANd there's someone who could help me ? i'm very concerned about it because i don't have money to buy another phone at the moment...
Thanks, and yes, already looked at XDA for a answer but couldn't fine any.
THANK YOU
csc file
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/modems-radio-baseband-official-t3034922
Try this
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There is
A Samsung recovery flashable zip you search for it . Should solve your problem
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Thanks everyone, after more than 4 hours i found a way to restome my TWRP backup.. but couldn't figure a way to install the stock ROM, fails every time. thanks.
willowpc said:
Thanks everyone, after more than 4 hours i found a way to restome my TWRP backup.. but couldn't figure a way to install the stock ROM, fails every time. thanks.
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You could try a 4 files Rom.. You can find it on samsung Vietnam forum
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You could try a 4 files Rom.. You can find it on samsung Vietnam forum
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First, thread belongs in Help section not Dev.....
Second, are you sure you downloaded the right firmware from SamMobile? If restore in TWRP works, partitions most likelyaren't jacked up.
dicksteele said:
First, thread belongs in Help section not Dev.....
Second, are you sure you downloaded the right firmware from SamMobile? If restore in TWRP works, partitions most likelyaren't jacked up.
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Yep, downloaded it from sammobile, ZTO BRAZIL version, the latest... but it stops at system.img every time.. don't know what to do, i'll keep in this custom rom until a figure out a way to do it..
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Yep, downloaded it from sammobile, ZTO BRAZIL version, the latest... but it stops at system.img every time.. don't know what to do, i'll keep in this custom rom until a figure out a way to do it..
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Are you sure it's system.img not hidden.img? I ran across something after attempting ODIN flashes starting a few version back.
You need to re remove hidden.img from tar file and flash it separate. Sucks but it's been working for me.
dicksteele said:
Are you sure it's system.img not hidden.img? I ran across something after attempting ODIN flashes starting a few version back.
You need to re remove hidden.img from tar file and flash it separate. Sucks but it's been working for me.
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No, it's system.img, i had some problems with hidden too, and i have done the same that u have said.. but now it's stop at system.img... don't know why... i'll try do do it through the Kies...
I am trying to unroot my phone. I have a US version of G930A. Sammobile has every county except the USA. I found G930AATT1APB5_User_Binary.zip which has AP_G930AUCU1APB5_CL7193387_QB8719495_REV02_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar, the BL, CP and CSC file in it. I try to flash it using Odin3, and I get an "odin protocol version error." I take it because the image is a lower version that's what's on there. I would like to download the latest stock image but sammobile doesn't offer images for the US? Or is there a better way?
Wrong forum. This here is for SM-G930F Development, not Q&A. You'll get the answers you're seeking and more, at the S7 AT&T Q&A and Dev forums. Mod, please move - thanks.
Wrong forum. But try using Kies in Download mode
That is what i do when ever i restore my phone.
No Kies good lord. This isn't a Note 2.
You're getting that error because you're on newer firmware than you're trying to flash so it's erroring out.
Follow the Return to stock procedure in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...sed-unroot-t3411039/post67605246#post67605246
Flash all 4 files, then you'll be on PF2 and able to get the OTA Update to PG1 with wifi calling, etc.
I tried using kies. It asks me for my model. I put in SM-G930A. The serial I put in all caps and it tells me my model number I entered is wrong.
joe3681 said:
No Kies good lord. This isn't a Note 2.
You're getting that error because you're on newer firmware than you're trying to flash so it's erroring out.
Follow the Return to stock procedure in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...sed-unroot-t3411039/post67605246#post67605246
Flash all 4 files, then you'll be on PF2 and able to get the OTA Update to PG1 with wifi calling, etc.
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I tried the instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/veri...6#post67605246 and I get "FAIL! Model dismatch fail"
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I tried the instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/veri...6#post67605246 and I get "FAIL! Model dismatch fail"
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Which Odin are you using?
You're flashing the PF2?
I've tried many versions of Odin v1 (not the 3). I'm not sure what the PF2 is.
To get it to work, I just defaulted the phone and rerooted it. It's the only way I can get it to work. It's working perfect right now. Only question is how long,
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I've tried many versions of Odin v1 (not the 3). I'm not sure what the PF2 is.
To get it to work, I just defaulted the phone and rerooted it. It's the only way I can get it to work. It's working perfect right now. Only question is how long,
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for g930a (galaxy s7 at&t NOT EDGE)
WARNING: YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA MAKE A BACKUP
download these files:
Odin: http://www.mediafire.com/download/2t...din_3.12.3.rar
Flashing Files: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B17...w?usp=drivesdk
After downloading extract the .rar extract it then extract each, BL, AP, ect... files. Use the odin included in the download to flash and you will be returned to stock. If the odin included still gives you the error you can get the princecomsey version and see if that works from here: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/tools/ODIN/ODIN-modified.zip
If odin freezes or crashes just restart it and try again, it might take a while foor the AP file to load into odin so just be patient and if it looks like it is about to crash wait about 2-3 minutes then force close it and try again.
Now you are returned to stock an all set !!
(p.s) - PF2 is the latest firmware as of now for the g930a, meaning when you flash this you will be all set. You may have tried to flash the original PF which is now outdated cause AT&T updated it, I did this and it worked but i could not update my phone so I flashed this one and it works perfectly and Samsung pay is up and running.